Child Protection Nepal Project #2739

Psychological Counseling for 20 Nepali Children

by Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF)

Project Report | Jul 1, 2021
Your support makes such a difference - Thank you!

By Crystal Anderson | Grants and Donor Communications Manager

Tele-counseling session at Ankur Counseling Center

Throughout 2020, Ankur Counseling Center provided an elevated number of services under ever-shifting, stressful conditions imposed by the pandemic. As you may already know, Ankur quickly shifted to online and tele-counseling beginning in March 2020.

A full 40% of the counseling services provided this year pertained to the pandemic. The team has demonstrated NYF’s deep commitment to the children, families, and communities we serve. We are deeply grateful for their dedicated work.

Thanks to support from friends like you, the Ankur team has been able to:

Conduct over 1,000 individual counseling sessions for children and adults
Hold over 125 group counseling or life skills training sessions
Provide telephone-based crisis intervention training to staff members at women’s service centers, who experienced a surge in need as cases of domestic violence spiked during lockdown
Produce Nepali-language infographics about self-care, emotional resiliency, and healthy coping tools to be shared online
Work with NYF staff members to help strengthen and support team members throughout the pandemic.

Thank you so much for making this all possible!

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Mar 8, 2021
Thank you for your loving support!

By Eimi Olson | Project Leader

Dec 1, 2020
NYF's COVID-19 Heroes: Sumitra at Ankur Counseling Center

By Crystal Anderson and Eimi Olson | Project Leaders

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to each and every single one of you for generously supporting this project. Today on #GivingTuesday, we hope you’ll join us in #MovingAMillion by showing us some extra love.

Gifts for this project will help Ankur Counseling Center provide counseling and mental health care for children, families, and women in Nepal. In this report, we’d like to share another staff highlight: Sumitra D.

Sumitra joined the Ankur Counseling Center team in 2010 after she earned her Master’s in Clinical Psychology. A thoughtful career move became a mission, and 10 years later, Sumitra is still with NYF. While Chhori (head of Ankur) was studying in the United States, Sumitra managed operations at the facility.

Like many people throughout the world, Sumitra isn’t thrilled to be cooped up at home. “I am grateful that I am living safely in my home but sometimes I am irritated and frustrated due to the various difficulties I come across during this situation,” she admits. “So I’ve been trying to cope by doing self-care exercises.” The Ankur team has been sharing those self-care exercises online in easy-to-forward Nepali-language handouts.

On a more upbeat note, Sumitra says, “I have been providing tele-counseling to the children at Olgapuri and other few clients as well as tele-psychosocial support to members of the community. I feel it is good for myself to be helpful to others through my work at this time of crisis as I get to support them by listening to them and helping them to cope with the current situation.”

Sumitra and the rest of the Ankur staff are doing intensive, focused work — and NYF relies on your wonderful support to keep it going. Today, GlobalGiving has prepared $1 million in Incentive Funds — meaning eligible gifts (up to $2,500 per unique donor per organization) will count towards earning a portion of that fund!

Please make a gift today to maximize the impact of your support. Thank you and Dhanyabad!

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